Taking A Leap Anatomy and Physiology was my favorite course in college. After spending a semester elbow deep in human cadavers, I returned the next semester as a lab assistant and began tutoring the subject to underclassmen. So ten years later, when my parents saw an ad in the local paper for an A&P instructor…
Category: How I Got Here
A Gift for Me? Why–Thank You!
The most popular question I get these days is, “Where are you?” The short answer: Schroon Lake, New York. Learning, yet again, to accept the generosity of others. In this case, a rent-free home with more bedrooms than I have holes in my head (visitors are very welcome!). I know many of you marvel at my…
My Third Thing
“A choice between two things is not a choice. It becomes a fight between right or wrong.” I read the sentence again. As the afternoon sun warmed the page, I pulled out my pen to underline it. I had never thought of it like that. No wonder I hate making decisions. “We need a third thing,…
Luck? I think not.
I should take showers more often. Not for hygiene reasons (I think life is entirely too short to waste so much of it on such a silly daily ritual). I’d take them more often for this reason only: it’s under that flow of water that I come up with some of my best writing ideas….
Synchronicity
Many of you know that I was hired by Busted Halo to write blog posts from the Camino this past Spring. If you’re curious as to how this previously-unpublished writer got such an opportunity, I just published an article about how it all happened here. Enjoy:)
Finding Optimism
In order to live the life that I do, you need a good dose of optimism; a belief that another adventure will come your way, and so will the means to fund it. Optimism was not something I was born with. It came to me after a trip I took when I was 15 years…
Letting go of the past
This wasn’t the first time I’d moved to a town where I knew next to no one. There was a certain thrill of being in a brand new in a place. The idea of starting over, of letting go of the past and moving full force into an unknown future. I’m aware that not everyone…
I Think I’ll Go to Boston…
It took a long time to learn, but what they say is true: Mom is usually right. This lesson is often earned only after going completely against her advice numerous times. On rare occasions though, a child triumphs and gets to say, “Ha! I was right!” It doesn’t happen that often, so when it does…
The Census
A gentleman commented on my car the other day. This happens all the time. When you own a newer version of a car that everyone over a certain age seemed to have had at one point in their lives, they want to tell you their story. I’ve heard a lot of VW Bug stories. I…
How I Got Here – The Europe trip
In October of 1999, I got an e-mail about an airfare sale. It was from a company specializing in travel for folks under 26 years of age and at the time I was 23. My desire to study abroad in college was shot down long ago, but here I saw an opportunity. I wanted to…
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